Daily Archives: January 18, 2011

I harken us back to the day of the C-Ration. The days when hungry GI Joes had to open their canned pork-n-beans with what was arguably one of the Army’s greatest inventions. The P38 Can Opener.

It’s official designation is ‘US ARMY POCKET CAN OPENER’ or ‘OPENER, CAN, HAND, FOLDING, TYPE I‘, but is almost always called a “P-38″ which it supposedly acquired from the “38 Punctures” required to open a C-Ration can.

I have carried one of these little gems on my key-ring for years and have an extra stashed away. It’s well worth the buck or so to pick one up.

shoot to……what?Grave awaiting its coffin. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I was just reading Tiger McKee’s “The Book of Two Guns” where I came across this passage: When engaging a threat with fire you are shooting to stop the threat-not kill them. Due to the areas we must shoot to stop the threat effectively-the center mass and head, the threat may die. But that i […]

fine..gross..lets call the whole thing offAnother interesting post over at Vuurwapen Blog. Andrew talks about one of my favorite “tactical sacred cows”…the whole “you won’t be able to do that fine motor skill in combat” meme. http://vuurwapenblog.com/2012/10/09/dexterity-motor-skills/ I was first told about “fine motor skills” while in the military; the expl […]

Do you think you are special or something?COPS (TV series) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is going to be sort of “free thought” and probably a bit disjointed so please bear with me as I try to put this together… In the local news here a story was recently posted about an off duty LEO getting arrested by another agency for DWI. The social media comments then […]